OMAR WARAICH

HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGNER /​WRITER﻿ /JOURNALIST

​​Omar Waraich is Deputy South Asia Director at Amnesty International. From 2007-16, he covered Pakistan for TIME Magazineand The Independent. He has written on politics, the rise in terrorist attacks, Islamist insurgencies, military offensives, Pakistan-U.S. relations, the blasphemy laws, religious minorities, culture, and press freedom. He covered many other events in Pakistan, including the lawyers' movement, the 2007 state of emergency, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the 2008 & 2013 elections, the 2010 floods, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

Omar has reported from South Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. He has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Slate, Sports Illustrated, The Caravan, Al-Jazeera America, Roads & Kingdoms, The Guardian, The New Statesman and The Economist Intelligence Unit.